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Vmware ESX3i Free!
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Yesterday, VMware during a conference call revealed that they are indeed going to make VMware ESX3i free. ESX3i from just the hypervisor perspective has the same functionality as "plain" ESX server. This will have a big impact for hypervisor adaption.
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Free Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration Tool
Saturday, 19 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Now that Hyper-V is out, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people will be wanting to migrate their virtual machines from Virtual Server and Virtual PC to Hyper-V. This isn't as easy as copying the VHD unfortunately. But have no fear, there is a free tool (underway) to help you with this.
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App-V ADM Template Now Available
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by Michel Roth
In the good old Softricity days there were the people in the trenches like Rodney Medina who came out all dirty and injured but with really cool stuff like the ADM templates for Softgrid . No more such glory seems to possible with App-V because Microsoft has created their own ADM templates that you can download and use.
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SCVMM 2008 Pricing Announced
Monday, 21 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Recently Microsoft announced the pricing for the upcoming SCVMM 2008 which managed Hyper-V, ESX and XenServer. The availability was already known: Q4 of this year. Pricing of course will be interesting since everybody is looking to compare it with VMware Virtual Center.
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CoreConfigurator No Longer Avaialble
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Some time ago I reported that a guy named Guy (confusing?) created a tool called CoreConfigurator. This tool allowed you to have a GUI for the GUIless version of Windows Server 2008: the Core editions. Sadly, it seems that the tool has been claimed by Guy's former employer.
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vmSight Detailed Product Review
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Performance management in these virtual times is becoming more and more important. VMware acknowledged this with their acquisition of B-Hive. Even though the market of performance management on virtualized systems a pretty new there are more players than just B-Hive (VMware). vmSight is one that recently got reviewed.
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Citrix Announces Project Kensho
Monday, 21 July 2008 by Michel Roth
For quite some time I have been saying that in my perception hypervisors sill become a commodity. Now that this is starting to happen more and more, interoperability between the formats of the virtual machines of the different hypervisors becomes important. This is exactly what project Kensho is about.
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Font Smoothing Available On Windows 2003 Terminal Server
Friday, 18 July 2008 by Michel Roth
You proably also thought that font smoothing was a feature that was new and unique to Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services. Well, as it turns out that is not the case. Microsoft has has this feature in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services all this time! Here's how to "unlock it".
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Hyper-V Knowlegde Dump
Thursday, 17 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Now that Hyper-V is generally available the information tsunami that you would expect from a release like this has occurred. Now that the wave has receded, this article is intended to gather all of this information into one article.
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Managing Hyper-V with SystemCenter Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Wednesday, 16 July 2008 by Michel Roth
Now that Hyper-V is available System Centers Virtual Machine Manager 2008 becomes even more important because it's poised to be "Hyper-V's Virtual Center". It's currently in beta so it might be worth reading this article on SCVMM 2008 beta.
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ESX Manager 2.3
Wednesday, 16 July 2008 by Michel Roth
I just recently ran into a tool called ESX Manager. This tool just got updated to version 2.3. It's a actually a pretty cool for folks that do not want to spent the money to buy virtual center but still want some kind of advanced ESX management.
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A First look at RTO Virtual Profiles
Wednesday, 09 April 2008 by Michel Roth

A couple of months ago I noticed that RTO was offering a new product called RTO Virtual Profiles. I also said it was probably just another Flex Profiles clone. As it turns out I was quite wrong. Wrong in that the product wasn't officially released yet and wrong in that RTO Virtual Profiles deals with profiles in a very different, refreshing way. I took a look at some of the early betas.

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Microsoft Releases Hyper-V RC: RTM Will Be Sooner Than Expected, Much Sooner...
Thursday, 20 March 2008 by Michel Roth
Microsoft just announced that they have delivered the first release candidate (RC) of Hyper-V to the general public. So after shipping Windows Server 2008 with a beta of the Hyper-V role embedded and now, not even a month later, shipping the Hyper-V release candidate, Microsoft is on the fast-track with Hyper-V. Mark my words: Hyper-V will be released (a lot) earlier than August 2008.
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Off Shoring Virtual Application Creation
Friday, 14 March 2008 by Michel Roth
Application virtualization, primarily thanks to Microsoft pushing it, has become very popular in companies of all sizes. Implementation of application virtualization or migration to application virtualization isn't something to be taken lightly. Whether you use SoftGrid, Thinstall, Citrix Application Streaming or another product, very specific skills are required to make this work. Why do all the hard work yourself?
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About My Decision To Join Provision Networks
Friday, 07 March 2008 by Michel Roth
This is ironic. I've been scooped myself. As you might have noticed, Brian Madden has blogged about the fact that I have decided to join Provision Networks (now a part of Quest Software). This information came out a little earlier than I planned but I guess this is as good a time as any for me to explain why I decided to join Provision Networks and what will happen to Thincomputing.net.
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Using BitTorrent To Solve Omnipresent Deployment Problems
Thursday, 06 March 2008 by Michel Roth

Centralization and consolidation was and is high on any CIO's wishlist. All this centralization and consolidation offers tremendous advantages but also imposes new challenges to IT infrastructures. So moving everything to the datacenter and managing everything from the datacenter is great but what if you need to move data out of the datacenter? Say if you want to deploy a desktop image to 6500 desktops in 11 other locations? What if you wanted to do that in under four hours? Short of having 100 Gbps connetions between all locations this would prove to be impossible.

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Vmware, Citrix and Mud
Thursday, 28 February 2008 by Michel Roth
I've never been a particular Jerry Springer fan. Recently however, I found it necessary to reflect on this because I've been actively watching the amount of mud that is being thrown by VMware and Citrix recently. This makes the Jerry Springer show look like a Tupperware party.
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